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CVE-2022-48732 drm/nouveau: fix off by one in BIOS boundary checking

2024-06-2011:13:20
Linux
github.com
2
vulnerability
resolve
linux kernel
drm
nouveau
bios boundary checking
bounds checking
parsing init scripts
apple emac
geforce 2 mx gpus
driver initialization
fail
apple
openfirmware
powerpc macs
rom
pci.

AI Score

6.6

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/nouveau: fix off by one in BIOS boundary checking

Bounds checking when parsing init scripts embedded in the BIOS reject
access to the last byte. This causes driver initialization to fail on
Apple eMac’s with GeForce 2 MX GPUs, leaving the system with no working
console.

This is probably only seen on OpenFirmware machines like PowerPC Macs
because the BIOS image provided by OF is only the used parts of the ROM,
not a power-of-two blocks read from PCI directly so PCs always have
empty bytes at the end that are never accessed.

AI Score

6.6

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial